Jack Aloe

Born 14.01.1891  Place Revel (Tallinn), Estonia

Ethnic origin Estonian     Religion Church of England

Father Aloe, K.       Mother Aloe, Mary

Arrived at Australia

from Antwerp   on 20.12.1911   per Furth   disembarked at Port Adelaide

Residence before enlistment Port Pirie

Occupation fireman

Service

service number 4052   enlisted 7.12.1915 POE Adelaide

unit 27th Battalion   rank Private

place Western Front, 1916-1918      casualties WIA 1916, 1917 (3 times)

final fate KIA 31.08.1918

memorial details 26 Villers Bretonneux, France

Naturalisation served as Russian subject

Materials digitised naturalisation application (NAA)

digitised service records (NAA)

army pay file (NAA)

digitised Roll of Honour card (AWM)

From Russian Anzacs in Australian History:

For some Russian immigrants naturalisation was not just a formality: in joining the Australian army some really did want to be Australians. So, the denial of naturalisation to the men who went overseas to fight for Australia was especially harsh. In 1915 Jack Aloe, an Estonian seaman who settled in Australia in 1911, wrote: ‘my intention is to enlist for active service as soon as I am accepted as a British subject’. In a week he received the formal response that he was ‘not eligible to apply for Commonwealth naturalization at the present time’. Nevertheless, he joined the AIF, was wounded three times and, in the name of the nation which rejected him, made his supreme sacrifice in the battle for Péronne almost at the end of the war.

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